Samantha Bradshaw
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Samantha Bradshaw is a D.Phil. candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. She is also a Researcher on the Computational Propaganda Project at Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Canadian International Council. Samantha’s work examines government use of social media for coordinated digital disinformation campaigns. Her research has been featured by numerous media outlets, including the Washington Post, Bloomberg, and the Financial Times. She holds an MA in global governance from the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and a joint honors BA in political science and legal studies from the University of Waterloo. Samantha tweets from @sbradshaww.
Research interests
Social media and democracy, cyber security, computational propaganda, Internet governance, human rights online, government and politics.
Positions held at the OII
- DPhil student, October 2016 –
- Research Assistant, Computational Propaganda Project, October 2016-
Research
Current projects
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Computational Propaganda
Participants: Professor Philip Howard, Dr Vidya Narayanan, Dr Dimitra (Mimie) Liotsiou, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Samantha Bradshaw
This project will focus on how bots, algorithms and other forms of automation are used by political actors in countries around the world.
News
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New report reveals growing threat of organised social media manipulation world-wide
20 July 2018
The manipulation of public opinion over social media platforms has emerged as a critical threat to public life.
Press
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Decision by tech giants to ban Irish abortion ads was ‘too little, too late’
18 October 2018 Irish Times
Fake news researcher sides with critics over ineffective move by Google and Facebook
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Trump’s claim that Google is biased against him distracts from tech’s bigger issues: Expert
5 September 2018 CNBC
Trump last week accused Google of rigging search results to prioritize negative coverage and left-leaning outlets — an academic says that distracts from bigger issues.
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Data-protection laws must be extended to political parties
22 March 2018 Globe and Mail
Samantha Bradshaw is a senior fellow at the Canadian International Council. She is also a D.Phil. candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a researcher on the Computational Propaganda Project at Oxford University.
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Tech Tent: The battle with the bots
23 February 2018 BBC News
Is the battle against online propaganda already being lost as AI puts powerful new weapons in the hands of the fake news merchants?
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Twitter bot purge prompts backlash
21 February 2018 BBC News
"This is a company that's under a lot of heat to clean up its act in terms of how its platform has been exploited to spread misinformation and junk news," said Samantha Bradshaw from the University of Oxford's Computational Propaganda Project.